Salvaged from the barn. Still working. Seeing data
after the read amplifier. Unfortunately, the manual I have is not
exactly for this build. No manual for the F1000 formatter.
Therefore it may be best to connect the raw but digitized read
data to the FPGA and do the decoding/deskewing there. We'll see...

Now,
read forwards/backwards and fast rewind are working.

One
type of simpler make electrolytic capacitors are completely dried
out and have to be replaced throughout the boards. Other, better
sealed types seem to be OK.

Maybe. Maybe in 'C' on a 64 Bit Machine. Maybe in an FPGA.
Maybe the tapes I have left from my times with the real one
contain some useful software for it. Requires project TM100 to
find out. Or maybe I just make a similar machine and use P5 as a
code generator for it. Too many may-bees :)